Lakes
- Lake Superior 47°45′N 87°30′W / 47.75°N 87.5°W / 47.75; -87.5 (Lake Superior) — most voluminous lake at 2,800 cubic miles (11,600 km3)
- Lake Michigan–Huron 45°49′N 84°45′W / 45.817°N 84.75°W / 45.817; -84.75 (Lake Michigan–Huron) — most extensive lake and the most extensive fresh water lake on Earth at 45,445 square miles (117,702 km2)
- Great Salt Lake, Utah 31°10′N 112°35′W / 31.167°N 112.583°W / 31.167; -112.583 (Great Salt Lake) — most extensive endorheic lake at 1,700 square miles (4,400 km2)
- Crater Lake, Oregon 42°57′N 122°5′W / 42.95°N 122.083°W / 42.95; -122.083 (Deepest point in Crater Lake) — deepest lake at 1,943 feet (593 m)
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Famous quotes containing the word lakes:
“When you get out on one of those lakes in a canoe like this, you do not forget that you are completely at the mercy of the wind, and a fickle power it is. The playful waves may at any time become too rude for you in their sport, and play right over you.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value; they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. Let our lakes receive as true names at least as the Icarian Sea, where “still the shore” a “brave attempt resounds.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)